![]() You’ve got eye contact and line of sight on both ends of the video feed. If anyone else fancies hacking together one of these, drop me a line – I’d be curious to see how well it works when Tweak the webcam settings in Skype to flip the video 90° vertically. Has a neat flexible base/clamp/grip thing that makes it pretty easy to flip, and the last thing I had to do was The webcam’s a Logitech Communicator Deluxe, which Held in place with blu-tak inside a home-made cardboard “shroud”. Staring over their head or down at their chest.Īnd here’s the actual contraption itself the glass is from one of those cheap postcard picture frames, and it’s just Pretty easy), and then when you look at the person you’re talking to, you’ll actually make eye contact instead of Glass exactly (my webcam has a tiny light next to the lens that shows up in the reflection, which makes this part Once Skype’s running, just drag the remote video window so it lines up behind the Looking at Skype - NOT at the webcam, which is flipped 90° and pointing straight down from inside theĬardboard gizmo on top of the screen – and yet the video feed shows me looking straight at the camera. I’ve wondered for a long time whether the same principleĬould solve the video-conferencing problem, so I decided to hack together a prototype to see if it would work… andĪlthough the image quality is pretty rough, it does actually work. Point is, teleprompters work on some pretty basic optics. Reflection when you look out of your house windows after dark, but you never see your reflection when it’s bright Of glass which is lit on one side and dark on the other actually behaves like a mirror – notice how you see your If your device lacks a built-in webcam you can use an optional external center lens webcam or optional DSLR camera in place of the webcam. Yes, this is a bit magic (or maybe it’s just sufficiently advanced?) It’s worth remembering that a Through the darkened glass to where the newsreader is sitting. Newsreader sees the reflection of the hidden screen, and the camera doesn’t see the screen at all – it sees straight Of glass, tilted at 45°, inside a darkened “shroud” the camera lens is hidden behind the darkened glass, so the TV teleprompters have solved this problem – they use a piece You, I’m not looking at the camera – so to you, I appear to be looking slightly above your head, or off to ![]() Problem of the camera and the screen not being in the same place – so if we’re chatting on Skype, and I’m looking at Massively improved, and even a £300 netbook has a pretty good built-in webcam – but they still haven’t solved the Nowadays, of course, the video and audio quality are They always looked slightly off to one side or above your head. ![]() – low quality, unresponsive, and this weird problem where the person on the other end never actually looked AT you, My first experience of video conferencing was on a £10,000 dual ISDN Pentium system back in 1997, and it was horrible ![]() Learn more about this unique solution explained by Adam Lisagor from Sandwich.Just for Fun: The Webcam Teleprompter Shroud Experiment Posted by Dylan Beattie on Luna Display recently launched a Teleprompter Mode - something that Apple’s Sidecar feature doesn’t have. You could also use this solution to record high-quality video while using your iPad as a teleprompter. Luna Display’s Teleprompter modeĪnother interesting solution is using Luna Display and two-way teleprompter glass (beam splitter) to be able to maintain eye contact with people in video calls if you want to use a high-quality camera like a DSLR. For full access to all of the features, Speakflow runs from $10/month. You can try out Speakflow for free with unlimited scripts and limited use of the voice-activated scroll and video recording. Speakflow also features valuable collaboration tools like the ability to write scripts with others along with organizing and keeping track of changes. Speakflow offers advanced features like voice-activated scroll, a remote mode that lets you sync multiple devices, and an overlay mode so you can still see what’s on your screen. Speakflow is a rich, web-based teleprompter solution so it’s easy to use across Mac, iPad, iPhone, or any other device. You can try PromptSmart Lite for free while PromptSmart Pro runs $19.99 and has other in-app purchases to unlock all the features, it’s rated 4.6/5 stars with over 7,000 reviews. Or you can also choose to record video while reading scripts with your iPads built-in camera. It can also invert text to be compatible with two-way teleprompter glass. We’ve found PromptSmart Pro to be a great option with features like speech recognition that adjusts prompts to the speed of your voice (and will pause if you go off-script). If you’re looking for something more feature-rich, a third-party app can do the trick.
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